Thread: Body demesions?????

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Some of the main dimensions and a good picture of a '29 roadster are given on the "Rod and Race" site for the factory in Md. Sometimes if you xerox a computer printout, say from a screen dump and put graph paper in the printer you can "pick off" some measurements from the graph scale, but the contours may be impossible without an original or a mold. Then again if you are only trying to get something roughly like a roadster you can make your own shape. Maybe with Al's additional measurements and graphical pickoff you can get pretty close. I remember reading about someone who built a replica of Henry Ford's very first car (the one he had to knock the wall out of his garage shop to get it out!) by going to the Ford museum in Dearborn but they would not let him touch the car or get inside the case so he put tape on the outside of the glass case and sighted across the case to get the measurements and it turned out great, BUT(!) that was a simple buggy design with mostly straight lines. The '29 A roadster body has some subtle compound curves, but again maybe you can make a "mod-replica" with just the main curves and forget about the belt molding and other small details. Maybe a wedge cowl and a rounded rear deck with a sharp right angle edge could capture the overall shape and still look like a roadster.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder